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The Qualifications of a Gospel Minister for, and Duty in studying rightly to divide the Word of Truth; and the Duty of those who do partake of the Benefit of his Labours, towards him fully, plainly & impartialy [sic] represented in Two Sermons on 2 Tim: 2.15. Preached at the ordination of the Revd mr. Philip James at the Welch Tract on Pee Dee River in South Carolina April 4. 1743. With some Illustrations & Enlargements.
[South Carolina: 1743]
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folio, [20] ff. Written in a clear hand with numerous corrections. Unbound, on laid paper of the 1740s; now age-toned and a bit brittle, with some fold tears. Edges of paper chipped with some small pieces missing, occasionally costing a letter only. Now safely housed in a marbled paper-covered chemise within a red cloth clamshell box.
Chanler (1701-49), a native of Bristol, England, was a Baptist minister in the Ashley River region of South Carolina, beginning in 1733. He published three works: Doctrines of glorious grace unfolded (Boston,1744), New converts exhorted to cleave to the Lord (Boston, 1740), and The state of the Church of Christ, both militant and Triumphant (Charlestown, S.C., 1744), the latter work known in a single copy only!
Although the title-page of this manuscript proclaims, "Published at the Unanimous and Earnest Request of Both Minister and People," this work was never published in the sense of having been printed, or if it was printed, no copy now survives, nor has any evidence of its publication.
This manuscript is apparently the only surviving evidence, and very substantial evidence, of an unpublished work by this pioneer minister.
The second sermon mentioned on the title-page was on Galatians 6:6 and is not present here; it may well have never been copied out and sewn to the end of this manuscript. In any case the second sermon is apparently long-lost.
Provenance: Ex- Crozer Theological Seminary.
